Tile-drainage planning software
A Windows desktop planner for farmers who install their own tile. Turn an elevation survey into a routed, depth-checked, pipe-sized drainage plan — no consultant required.
Windows 10 / 11 · 64-bit · one-time purchase · free 3-day trial
How it works
Three steps from a raw elevation survey to tile lines your contractor can install.
Download LiDAR elevation for your field in Ag Leader SMS, export it, and open it in DryAcre. It builds a color-relief surface and draws contours automatically.
Watershed analysis finds the flow paths, catchments, and the field-edge outlets where water actually leaves your ground.
Auto-route mains up the flow paths, add laterals, let the depth router keep every run on grade, size the pipe, and export.
See it in action
DryAcre turns raw LiDAR into a readable picture of how water moves — then lets you route and depth-check tile right on top of it.
What's inside
Purpose-built for the farmer doing the work — not a general-purpose GIS package.
Imports LiDAR elevation exported from Ag Leader SMS and interpolates it into a smooth terrain grid with a hypsometric color ramp and configurable contours.
Fills sinks, traces flow accumulation, and delineates the catchments and outlets that drive where tile should run.
Traces the main stem upstream from each outlet to the channel head and lays a mainline that follows the field's natural drainage.
Draw laterals with live length, bearing, and spacing read-outs, then parallel-duplicate them across the field with a keystroke.
Holds minimum slope, targets your preferred depth, looks ahead through flats and dips, and flags any run that can't gravity-drain.
Manning full-flow capacity against your own product catalog, stepping diameter down along collectors and warning on undersized reaches.
See surface, tile invert, and the depth band for any run. Hover to probe elevation and depth anywhere along the line.
Write tile lines to Shapefile, KML, or GeoJSON — with tile IDs, inverts, lengths, and pipe sizes — ready for a GPS or contractor.
50-deep undo/redo and a self-contained project file. Reopen your whole plan — surface and all — without re-running anything.
Pricing
A perpetual license — no subscription. Your first year of updates is included; after that, maintenance is $30/year and entirely optional.
Per user. Includes 12 months of updates & maintenance. Plus applicable sales tax or VAT.
Installer + license file emailed instantly · try the free 3-day trial first · 14-day refund (refund policy)
Questions before you buy? Email support@dryacre.com — we answer every message.
Our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com, the Merchant of Record for all our orders.
Optional. DryAcre keeps working when maintenance lapses, and you keep every build released while you were covered — renewing only adds the ones that come after. Start or check a subscription →
Try before you buy
Install DryAcre on Windows and run it against your own field. The trial runs for 3 days from the first time you open it, with no feature limits — after that, importing, saving, exporting, and reports stop until you add a license. When you're ready, load the license file we email you to unlock it — no reinstall.
Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit) · single-file installer · we'll email your download link.
FAQ
No. DryAcre is a one-time purchase — a perpetual license. Your purchase includes 12 months of updates and maintenance. After that, the software keeps working forever; renewing maintenance only gets you newer builds.
Every update, fix, and new feature released during your maintenance window. You keep perpetual use of any build released while you were covered — even if you never renew.
A 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 PC. DryAcre installs from a single installer and does all its processing locally — no internet connection or account required to use it.
Elevation exported from Ag Leader SMS. Download LiDAR for your field in SMS, export it, and import it into DryAcre — it builds the surface, contours, watersheds, and everything else from those elevation points.
Never. All import, analysis, routing, and export happen on your own machine. Your survey and drainage plans stay on your PC.
Yes. Export finished tile lines to Shapefile, KML, or GeoJSON — carrying tile IDs, inverts, lengths, and pipe sizes — for a GPS guidance system, plow, or contractor.
Yes — email support@dryacre.com within 14 days of your order and we'll refund it in full, no reason needed. There's no automatic refund button; a real person reads every request. We'd still rather you ran the free 3-day trial on your own field first and knew it worked before paying. After 14 days purchases are final, except where the law where you live says otherwise, or if you were billed by mistake or something doesn't work as described — tell us and we'll put it right. Full details in our Refund Policy.
Yes — download the free 3-day trial and run it on your own ground. The 3 days start the first time you open DryAcre, and everything works during the trial, so you can plan real fields before deciding to buy. When it ends, importing new data, saving projects, exporting, and reports stop working; analysis and the tile-design tools stay open on what you already imported.
Stop guessing at grade and spacing. Lay out a tile system that follows your field's water — and know it'll flow before you ever open a trench.
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